Miguel Ángel Chico Herrera (born in Irapuato, Guanajuato

Guanajuato

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 on March 17, 1961) is a Mexican

Mexico

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 lawyer

Lawyer

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 and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI).
He was President of the party, charge that he held from 2005 to 2009. On March 2006 he became the PRI candidate to the governorship of Guanajuato, for the 2006 Guanajuato elections

Guanajuato state election, 2006

A local election was held in the Mexican state of Guanajuato on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:*A new Governor of Guanajuato to serve for a six-year term....

 held on July 2, 2006.
Chico has also run to mayor of Celaya

Celaya

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, local deputy and federal deputy. He has been director of the newspaper El Sol del Bajío in his native Guanajuato.
He is currently a Local Congressman for the State of Guanajuato and the representative of all Local Congress in Mexico before the America´s Parliamentary Confederation (COPA)

He resides in Guanajuato, Guanajuato and is married to Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Nieto and has a son, Alfonso and a daughter Eugenia.